" The road was a smooth and easy one, barring a few cumbering bowlders.

After an anxious search they discovered a bowlder lying in the river beneath the shelf, with a flat surface perfectly suited to their purpose.

"It was not by tossing feather balls into the air that the great Hercules gained his strength, but by hurling huge bowlders from mountain tops 'that his name became the synonymn of manly strength.'

" The cord holding firm, Thurstane reached the bowlder, and was presently joined by Glover.

Desmond rolled a bowlder over against the rock and mounted, and ran his finger over the crack.

Along the sloping sides of the gap stood bowlders, pillars, needles, and strange shapes of stone, peering over each other's heads into the gulf below.